CROSSFIT is one of the fastest growing sports in the world — and its biggest competition in Britain will be coming to Swansea this weekend.

CrossFit is one of the fastest growing sports in the world — and a Britain-wide competition will be coming to Swansea this weekend.

The Divided We Fall Games, featuring 660 athletes from 110 CrossFit clubs across the UK, will take place at the LC tomorrow and Sunday.

?CrossFit is a competition comprising numerous different fitness tests. Rather than focusing solely on strength, endurance or speed, athletes are required to demonstrate their all-round ability to excel in any physical examination.

This weekend's event is being hosted by the Reebok CrossFit Velocity gym in Fforestfach, but the soaring demand meant they had to move the event to the LC.

Nick Jones and Matthew Evans, the gym's founders and co-owners, will have their hands full in running the competition, but the overriding emotion at the moment is excitement.

"This is the biggest team event in the UK. There are other events but this is definitely the main one," says Jones.

"We've been working towards this competition for a long time, and we're hopeful our two teams will make it through to the second day.

"We're really looking forward to it. It should be a great event and I think our teams will do pretty well."

Competitors will have to be on their guard this weekend, with some details for competitions not released until a couple of hours before the events.

Each club is allowed up to two teams, with every team of six comprising four men and two women.

CrossFit has enjoyed an extraordinary rise in popularity since Evans and Jones first opened their gym in Fforestfach, and it seems the sport is only going to get bigger.

"CrossFit is growing massively. We did our first competition four years ago with around 25 people — this weekend we'll have 660," says Jones.

"It's the first time we've had to move the event away from our gym because it's got so big.

"It started when it became popular online, with people posting different workouts and scores on a site they started in California.

"Now it's grown across the world, and ESPN even did a live broadcast from an event with an American and European team recently.

"Membership at our gym has also risen a lot over the last four years, and this weekend's competition can only help."